The fourteenth annual Tribeca Film Festival kicked off Wednesday night with the premiere of the Saturday Night Live documentary, Live from New York!, which focuses on how the long-running sketch comedy show has reflected and affected society and pop culture.

"We wanted to look at [SNL] from a different angle and the context that we looked at it, we kind of said, 'What if we elevated things a little bit and looked at SNL as a reflection of what was happening in the country at any given time,'" executive producer JL Pomeroy told THR of her and fellow ep a...